Comments on: Super Quick Beta Update and IGDA Talk Tonight

By: Jon H

Jon H — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:38:01 +0000

I am getting excited. Can’t wait to try this out!!!

By: maarch

maarch — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:01:41 +0000

I was wondering today what was happening on the Spy Party side and there a couples hours later I got my answer ! Good to hear that you got things figured out, can’t wait to give it a try and help you out test the game :D

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:37:11 +0000

Luckily I’m already in SF today, I’ll be able to check out the meeting tonight.

By: Annie Moose

Annie Moose — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:19:17 +0000

Sounds like a good idea to me. The more you know about the processes behind it all, the easier it’s going to be to get your stuff to play nice with other people’s stuff later on. “Stuff” being a highly technical word with precise meaning in this context, of course. ;)

By: checker

checker — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:46:46 +0000

PayPal should work with your debit card. You don’t have to have an account, you can just anonymously pay by credit card (which most debit cards can pretend to be, I think?). I will definitely test it thoroughly with anonymous PayPal payments. I’ll put something to that effect on the page, too.

By: Phillip Wolter

Phillip Wolter — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:26:49 +0000

I think amazon will work. I don’t have a paypal account but I do have a debit card. :)

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:15:47 +0000

It’s great to hear an update on the beta, I can’t begin to imagine the dark magicks that bubble beneath the surface of the game code. Really, really really looking forward to the beta!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:06:18 +0000

…Moving to San Francisco in August to attend a PhD program at UC Berkeley. August can’t come soon enough. Seriously, between your and Blow’s presentations at the university and a handful of non-academic appearances this year alone, I feel that my time frame for the move is most unfortunate.

Best of luck with the talk, can’t wait to hear it / read it online.

By: seltzermx

seltzermx — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:45:34 +0000

Yay progress! I can’t wait to throw my money at you to play this again!

By: checker

checker — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:40:09 +0000

I still plan on putting SpyParty on Steam and everywhere else, but for the beta I wanted to control all the variables, both so I could learn what was necessary for this particular game, and also so I’d be in a position of strength and security and knowledge when it came time to make it work on other platforms. It’s incredibly valuable when using somebody else’s libraries/platform to be able to say, “feature X is broken”, and they say, “no it’s not, it has to work that way”, and you reply, “no it doesn’t, because of A, B, and C”, and they say, “oh, didn’t think of that, thanks, we’ll fix it.” I went into this not knowing much of anything about any of this stuff (authn, authz, payments, etc.), and thought it would be a good investment to learn it and be able to create a custom solution for SpyParty. If I end up throwing it all away after beta, that’s fine, because now I understand how all the pieces fit together.